the Receipt of Grain as of February 1 was indicated as 235 million [puds], and the remainder as of February 1—83 million. Taking these figures, Lenin further notes that over 6 months from the new harvest of 1920 through February 1, 1921, 155 million puds were expended, more than 25 million puds per month.

8 The exacerbation of the internal party situation, in connection with the contradictions of war communism, extreme centralism, and the absence of mass educational work, was recorded in the resolution of the September All-Russian Party Conference of 1920. The Conference recognized it necessary in the sphere of party building to transition to methods of intra-party democracy, particularly emphasizing that the party struggles against all attempts to make distinctions among party members according to the criteria of "leadership and rank-and-file, intellectuals and workers, according to national characteristics, etc." Following the September conference, the discussion on the question of organizational party building and on methods of intra-party work continued with renewed force, reaching particular acuteness in the Moscow organization. In November-December 1920, a discussion on trade unions began.

4 The Decision of the Council of People's Commissars "On Concessions" of November 23, 1920 was published in *Izvestiia*, No. 265 of November 25, 1920.

1 The second variant of the plan of the political report of the Central Committee to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b) was written by Lenin in ink on two quarto sheets folded in half of plain white paper. Later the document was edited a second time by Lenin, with all markings of the second edition made in blue pencil. The inscription at the top "Tenth Congress of the RCP(b), March 8-9, 1921" was made later in chemical pencil. The document is dated "March 7 or 8" on the basis of point 7 "On the Legislative History of the Tax," which was not included in the first plan of the political report. On March 7, Lenin appealed to the People's Commissariat of Justice for a report on all decrees connected with this question, apparently because, having included this point in the plan of the political report, he wished to verify the information on the legislative history of the tax that he had gathered.

6 The purchase of coal was decided at a session of the Council of People's Commissars on February 1, 1921. At this same session of the Council of People's Commissars, the granting of concessions in Baku and Grozny was approved in principle.

7 Lenin has in mind the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee "On the Assessment of Rural Proprietors with a Natural Tax in the Form of a Deduction of a Portion of Agricultural Products," October 30, 1918, published in the *Collection of Laws* of November 15, 1918, No. 82 (see Lenin Collection XVIII, p. 153). Following this decree came a series of decisions developing it. Lenin, preparing for the Congress, familiarized himself with all the decisions on this question, having requested the People's Commissariat of Justice for supplementary information. As is evident from the response of the People's Commissariat of Justice, Lenin missed only one decree of the Council of People's Commissars from 1919.